Geneva, June 15, 1999
An ACT assessment team arrived Pristina, Kosovo at noon today (Tuesday). The team consists of four members: Gary Sipson (team leader), Torbjörn Ströy-Pedersen (logistician), Christian Larsen (de-mining) and Hans Marklund (communication).

The team reports that they saw some hundred refugees gathered at the border between Macedonia and Kosovo (F.R.Y.).

During their two hour drive from Skopje to Pristina they also saw numerous empty villages and only few private vehicles on the road. The villages they passed appeared less destroyed than they had expected with only one or two houses burned or otherwise destroyed in a village.

The team's first tasks will be to inspect the old ACT-Norwegian Church Aid offices and flat in Pristina and subsequently to liase with UNHCR and the appropriate KFOR authorities.

Once established the team will do their own first assessment of the humanitarian needs as well as gather information from local sources and from other humanitarian agencies in Kosovo.

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